The La Barca cycle consists of 22 audiovisual pieces that were created in different cities and places during my travels in 2008 and 2009.The sounds and images for this part I recorded in Tokyo.It appeared to me as if the railway car moved like a slow boat, and the announcements at the stations sounded like invocations. I realized:„In a barque she sails across the high lands of the past.The barque heads shimmer and glow at stern and bow,and that lights her unseeable passage.She calls to the spirits

"German media artist Thomas Köner has been absent from the music scene for 5 years. For his numerous audio-visual performances and installations, he has travelled the world and crossed many flows of sound. La barca, named from one of his latest performances, is a record of brand new pieces where we can hear the landmarks of the unchallenged master of arctic soundscapes: rumbling basses and drapes of melancholic harmonics. La barca is also a world-crossing drift where Thomas Köner adds the experience of the

As an ex-husband, his wife and their two children take a vacation on the ex's new yacht, the scene is set for disaster when it becomes clear that the ex-husband knows absolutely nothing about yachting. The crew quickly find out that the Mediterranean has its own challenges, and the wife discovers her particular nemesis in a thoroughly unlikeable playboy who has his sights set a little too firmly on her alone. The interaction between the triad of wife, ex-husband, and playboy reaches a final resolution as th